Mary is an ingenuous student.
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Ingenuous
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/
Synonyms for "ingenuous" (141 found)
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6 entriesingenuous admissioningenuous explanationingenuous inquiryingenuous questioningenuous remarkingenuous smile
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Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth.
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"Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?" "Of course not." "On your word of honour?" I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
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The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.
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